In 1955 at age 67, Emma “Grandma” Gatewood hiked through 14 states and logged 5 million steps in five months. Considered the matriarch of the Georgia-to-Maine’s Appalachian Trail (AT), she wore Keds ...
I hiked Mt. Fuji years ago, as an athletic 14-year-old who participated in both competitive running and swimming. I thought I’d breeze up the mountain. Instead, I wheezed up each grueling switchback ...